HI AMY,

I REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN MY WIFE AND I HAD A RULE THAT THE KIDS STAYED IN THEIR OWN BEDS, UNLESS THERE WAS A BAD STORM OUT OR HAD A BAD DREAM.. SINCE WE WERE ALL UP ANYHOW, WE LET THEM STAY WITH US UNTIL THEY FELL ASLEEP. THEN THEY WERE CARRIED BACK TO BED.

HOW YOU RAISE YOUR DAUGHTER IS YOUR BUSINESS. THEY TELL ME AT MY AGE I WILL SOON REVERT TO BEING A CHILD AGAIN, BUT MY WIFE WON'T LET ME SLEEP WITH A 27 YEAR OLD.

MARTY

Amy:

You are the parent and need to do what you think is best for your child. When our kids where young I often layed down with them maybe for a few hours or sometimes all night.

Rely on your own judgement - not someone else.

Kim

Kim and Marty,

Thank you for your replys. It gets very confusing, when there is someone in the family who tells you, you are parenting wrong. She is the same one post stroke after days of me being sedentary in the bed for XX days paralyzed,"It looks like you are gaining weight!" WEll, doesn't that cheer up a strokie!

I am going to stop typing/remembering before I get mad.

Thanks,

-Amy

Hi Amy,

My sister slept with her son until he was seven. My mom kept on her case about it too but she was single and felt more comfortable with him in the room with her. Of course I was on my sister's side. I would tell my Mom. Leave her alone and let her do what she wants to. It's not hurting either of them and it hasn't. He's now a healthy 10 1/2 year old boy. My sister is now remarried and it did take some time to get him to sleep in his own bed but her new hubby was very understanding and helped out a lot with the whole thing. Good Luck and sweet dreams!!

Cindy

Amy,

I have two kids, my son who is now 13 and my daughter who is 7. Both kids slept the first 5 years in our bed. It was easier in many ways. But it wasn't easy, getting them used to sleeping in their own beds. It was just easy getting them to sleep at night. Co-sleeping is one of those modern marvels that we modern parents are doing wrong to ruin our nations future. Like our parents listened to and swore by Dr. Spock( they since say he is wrong!) I've never been one to do all the "right" things according to older family members. I did what worked for me. I never listened to all the "You should do this, you should do that". God if I had listened I'd have 2 neurotic kids instead of the healthy ones I have. So I'm trying to say, do what you feel is right and keep everyone else out of your business, cause you'll never please everyone all the time. You'll just open the door to doubts in your ability to parent.

Pam

Pam and Cindy!

Thank you very much! You two could host your own show "The Pam and Cindy show"

I am so a people pleaser and that bites me in the A a lot. Thanks girls!!!!!

-Amy

hey Amy:

our 8 year still sleeps with us, In India because of lack of space we all alway slept with mom and dad, and we turned out quite ok,

Asha